Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by lelanthran on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @12:38AM (#47408694)

Some devs interrupt what they are doing when they see a PR in a Slack notification, most don't.

Most devs set aside some time at most twice a day for PRs. That's 5 hours at least.

Some PRs come in at the end of the day and will only get looked at the next day. That's more than 5 hours.

IME it's rare to see a PR get reviewed in under 5 hours.

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Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by CBLT on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:08AM (#47409201)

I use a PR notifier chrome extension, so I have a badge on the toolbar whenever a PR is waiting on me. I get to them in typically <2 minutes during work hours because I tab over to chrome whenever AI is thinking. Sometimes I even get to browse HN if not enough PRs are coming and not too many parallel work sessions.

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Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by riffraff on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:09AM (#47409213)

But there's more than one person that can review a PR.

If you work in a team of 5 people, and each one only reviews things twice a day, that's still less than 5 hours any way you slice it.

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